SMAlset
Well-Known Member
What caused the car to explode with flames 20 feet in the air? I did not think the battery would explode like that. Maybe there was something very flamable in the frunk.
The car apparently ended up wedged in a small forested area of trees near the lake. Somewhere heard these included pine trees. Pine needles and cones and other forest debris likely woukd have been underneath the car when the damaged battery cells started to go into thermal run away. Good tinder for a fire and pine trees high in pine oil and tall torch material. Think about last year’s lightning strikes here in California in heavily pine forests that exploded in tall flames. Highly flammable material.
They could not have picked a worse residential area there to have crashed into. Except maybe someone’s home gas meter.
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